Patriot's jacket

Why the Americans can be grateful to Igor Sechin

The head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, whose daily income was estimated several years ago at 2.3 million rubles, said that he personally had collapsed oil prices "do not cause a feeling of some drama." To make this conclusion, Sechin personally appeared in the frame of the Russia-24 television channel and shared for a long time with the host of his picture of the world. According to Igor Ivanovich, our country in general and Rosneft in particular are the last islands of sanity in a crazy world where shale oil manufacturers from the USA rule, and no one wants to deal with the Russian leadership. But you should not worry, Sechin concludes, oil prices by the end of the year will somehow return to the level of $ 60 per barrel.

The head of Rosneft does not often give interviews, especially in television. Having set off to report to the country about the successes achieved (oil 25, dollar 80), the head of Rosneft put on a branded jacket of his company with a sign “I.I. Sechin "on the chest. The camouflage hinted that the top manager was working without turning his hands, as if he appeared in the studio directly from the drilling rig. A massive black contour allowed Sichin to sharply contrast with the figure of the Russia-24 correspondent, who was struggling to ask a respected person with all his might.

In dramaturgy, this was most reminiscent of the suffering of businessmen of the middle hand of Petrov and Boshirov: as if someone had given Igor Ivanovich an order to go out to the people and explain themselves.

In previous years, Sechin already shared his ideas about the "fair oil price." According to his estimates, for a barrel you can not give less than $ 60–80, but better. In 2014, Rosneft’s leadership was accused of ruffing: then, within an hour, within the framework of an opaque transaction, placed bonds for a record amount of 625 billion rubles in the market. But at a truly international level, an effective manager Igor Sechin reached only this month, when the Minister of Energy Novak refused to negotiate with Saudi Arabia to limit the volume of raw materials in the framework of OPEC+.

As a result of the collapse of the cartel, the price of oil returned to the level of 2003: the demand for raw materials falls due to the economic crisis, which is just beginning, and the supply is uncontrollably growing. Igor Ivanovich has become more than those who want to buy oil from the company in recent months.

The collapse of oil quotes reaches such scale that the US President Donald Trump intervenes in the disassembly of Russia and Saudi Arabia. Wall Street Journal writes that the American authorities are studying the possibility of diplomatic pressure on the conflict participants in order to normalize the situation in the energy market. Moreover, according to the publication, the United States considers the possibility of imposing new sanctions against Russia aimed at restricting the destabilizing influence of the actions of domestic state -owned companies on the oil market. Several statements made in recent days by the Lukoil leadership show that they are discouraged by Rosneft's policy not only in the United States.

Of course, all actions of effective management are immediately reflected in the state of the pockets of ordinary Russians. The ruble is again extremely vulnerable to the instability of the oil market, the country is poor in the seventh year in a row. But in developed countries, in the same United States, wealthy households reduce their expenses, because it is no longer necessary to overpay for expensive gasoline. It seems that they can thank for their well -being of our Igor Ivanovich.